Recommendations, news and notes from around Santa Cruz County arts & entertainment via Lookout correspondent Wallace Baine.

The week of summer solstice in Fairbanks, Alaska, is full of joy, celebration and renewal. The solar light fills the land as ...

Utqiagvik used to be called Barrow, and aside from being the most northern town in the US, it’s also one of the most extreme. For two months each winter, the sun never rises here. There’s also a ...

Curious about how the Upgraded Points team spends the summer? Just like you, we’re busy earning and redeeming points and ...

Swiss researcher Achille Capelli has found an open-air laboratory in Alaska. He is studying the polar ice shelf and is ...

Embark on a journey to the extraordinary corners of the world where the sun never bids farewell, creating an enchanting phenomenon that defies the typical day-night cycle. From the Land of the ...

During the summer, several destinations, from Norway to Alaska, experience the Midnight Sun, a phenomenon where the sun remains visible 24/7. This con ...

Night - Sunny. Winds ENE at 10 to 14 mph (16.1 to 22.5 kph). The overnight low will be 8 °F (-13.3 °C). Mostly sunny with a high of 20 °F (-6.7 °C). Winds ENE at 9 to 12 mph (14.5 to 19.3 kph ...

Alaska. By then it'll be 2021, Joe Biden will be president and the U.S. may have an available COVID-19 vaccine. But for this Alaskan town, the polar night is a normal phenomenon that happens every ...

The dense fog had condensed on my tent, then when the temperature dropped below freezing during the night, the moisture had turned into ... but I did want to start at Point Barrow, Alaska, the ...

When these heightened solar winds collide with Earth's atmosphere, they're creating displays in the night skies that are ... precisely why the University of Alaska built its Geophysical Institute ...